Enhancing Community-Led Response Systems in Emergencies and Crisis in Zimbabwe

Health disasters and emergency response mechanisms employed globally differ due to fundamental differences in established response structures. This is regardless of the nature of emergencies varying from climate, environmental, health, or manmade disasters. Developing countries in the global south such as Zimbabwe lack both human and financial resources to establish equally efficient disaster response infrastructure which is readily available in their developed counterparts. One clear instance where this was quite evident was during the Covid-19 pandemic. Developed countries had the infrastructure to house and attempt to treat people, develop and distribute vaccines, as well as to reach hard-to-reach areas; the same could not be said of developing countries. To read more, download the attached file;